"We shall never enjoy ourselves fully till we enjoy God eternally." (pg. 26)
"It is limiting God to confine him within the narrow compass of our reason." (pg. 55)
"It is better to want comfort, and be humble, than to have it, and be proud." (pg. 76)
"We stagger through unbelief, as if the arm of God's power were shrunk, and he could not help in desperate cases." (pg. 80)
"We can never be thankful enough to God, that he has hid the knowledge of himself from the wise and prudent of the world, and has revealed it unto us." (pg. 108)
"...if there be not three persons in the Godhead, man's salvation cannot be wrought out; if there be no second person in the Trinity, there is no redeemer; if no third person, there is no comforter. Thus the plank is taken away by which we get to heaven." (pg. 110)
"Providence is a Christian's diary, but not his Bible. Sometimes a bad cause prevails and gets ground, but it is not to be liked because it prevails. We must not think the better of what is sinful, because it is successful." (pg. 123)
"Though grace cannot make sin not to be, yet it makes it not to reign; though grace cannot expel sin, it can repel it. And for our comfort, where grace makes a combat with sin, death shall make a conquest. (pg. 148)
"The light of knowledge is one thing, the savour another. Christ makes us taste a savouriness in the word." (pg. 168)
"As Christ's assuming our human nature was a master-piece of wisdom, so it was a monument of free grace." (pg. 194)
"Great was the work of creation, but greater the work of redemption; it cost more to redeem us than to make us; in the one there was but the speaking of a word, in the other the shedding of blood." (pg. 209)
"Justification is a mercy spun out of the bowels of free grace. God does not justify us because we are worthy, but by justifying us makes us worthy." (pg. 227)
"It is absurd to imagine that God should justify a people, and they should still go on in sin. If God should justify a people and not sanctify them, he would justify a people whom he could not glorify. A holy God cannot lay a sinner in his bosom." (pg. 229)
"In sanctification, there is a blessed pliableness in the will; it symbolizes and comports with the will of God." (pg. 241)
"Under these fair leaves of civility the worm of unbelief may be hid. A moral person has a secret antipathy against grace: he hates vice, and he hates grace as much as vice." (pg. 243)
"The wicked may have something which looks like peace, but it is not. They may be fearless and stupid; but there is a great difference between a stupified conscience, and a pacified conscience." (pg. 262)
"If faith does not grow, unbelief will; if heavenly-mindedness does not grow, covetousness will." (pg. 276)
Thomas Watson, A Body Of Divinity (Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2015)
